 It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 64by John Milton - 1848Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1890
...passages of this kind, which must render their author dear to all who love piety and eloquence. —£D. together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps...As therefore the state of man now is ; what wisdom ca^ there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - Bible - 1893
...suggest in his case the knowledge of good might have been acquired without the knowledge of evil : — " Perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil — ie of knowing good by evil."3 But we need not suppose him to mean that even in unfallen man, good... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 570 pages
...was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps...what continence to forbear, without the knowledge О of evil ? ... I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 335 pages
...rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evill, that is to say of knowing good by evill. As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdome... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Books and reading - 1903 - 321 pages
...as an increased labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixt. And perhaps that is the doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil;...continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil. . . . That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Books and reading - 1903 - 321 pages
...as an increased labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixt. And perhaps that is the doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil;...continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil. . . . That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1903 - 80 pages
...rinde of one apple tafted, that the knowledge of good and evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World. \ And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evill, that is to fay of knowing good by evill. As therefore the ftate of man now is ; what wifdome... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 404 pages
...from out the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving 10 together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps...to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowl- 15 edge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1905 - 100 pages
...was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps...knowing good by evil^ As therefore the state of man UQW_ is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil?... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Theology - 1907
...from out of the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into, that is to say, of knowing good by evil." He should have learned to know evil as God knows it —as... | |
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